SIGNING & SHARING this petition is the most important thing you can do to help our effort! Please share this petition with your spouse, parents, siblings, neighbors, friends and colleagues. Our community must join together to show EUSD they have crossed moral boundaries with the content and ideas they are continually exposing our young children to.
In the coming days and weeks we will be sharing information about what's happening internally at EUSD. While we love our community, schools, and teachers, as parents we are ignored by the district leadership. Worse, when we request to see what they are teaching on divisive topics, district leadership refuses to share such information. Our goal is to restore trust by creating safeguards around our children and to prevent further damage from the implementation of these school programs and policies. The first step in that process is to inform the public of what's happening behind closed doors. So, here goes…
THE MORE YOU KNOW, PART 1:
Did you know that EUSD requires teachers and staff members to participate in presentations on gender ideology and critical race theory, two divisive theories that are widely debated, and entirely inappropriate for an elementary school system? These include five Equity Presentations that cover controversial topics like the “Gender Unicorn,” a “Privacy” clause, racial “implicit bias,” and“microaggressions.” Moreover, these 4-hour long presentations are given during school hours, pulling teachers out of the classroom to learn about ideologies instead of teaching math, reading, and writing to their students.
Amy Illingworth, the Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services, and Jennifer Bond, the Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Accountability authored these presentations. They also use them as inspiration for their new EUSD Equity Podcast: Everyone Belongs Here. Despite hosting monthly podcasts on these presentations, Ms. Illingworth refuses to provide them to parents. But you're in luck! We have procured and linked them below so that you can review and evaluate them yourself.
Many people, inside and outside the school, are concerned about these presentations. Parents have met with Superintendent Dr. Andreé Grey and Ms. Illingworth to express their concerns about CRT and LGBTQ+ materials being presented to their children without their consent or knowledge. However, these administrators dismiss such concerns out of hand and view them as unworthy of open dialogue. EUSD has gone beyond any state mandated guidelines. Rather than act as neutral arbiters of administrative policy, EUSD administrators take an activist role.